Data and arguments that dismantle the cliché that Spain condemned America to underdevelopment

2023-09-11 04:18:47
To explain Mexico’s overwhelming defeat against the independent state of Texas at the Battle of San Jacinto (1836), tradition states that the Spanish-American soldiers were taking a nap and did not notice the enemy until they were upon them. And, certainly, the military chronicles and the contradictions in the diary of the Mexican president and commander Santa Anna demonstrate without a doubt that, at least in this case, the Mexican Army acted with indiscipline. The nap thing is already more doubtful… The cliché of the Mexican, see Hispanic American in general, idle, undisciplined, unpunctual and so obese that he does not think fluently, is part of the constellation of racial prejudices that some peoples accept more or less. less grace…. See More
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